Alcohol-related Deaths

Tom Cox: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer for how many deaths within the Greater London area alcohol was found to be a primary cause in each of the last five years.

Stephen Timms: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
	Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Tom Cox, dated 9 December 2004
	As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking for how many deaths within the Greater London area, alcohol was found to be a primary cause in each of the last five years. (203617)
	The latest year for which figures are available is 2003. The attached table shows the numbers of deaths among residents of Greater London where the underlying cause of death indicated a condition directly related to alcohol use in the years 1999 to 2003.
	
		Alcohol-related deaths(1) for Greater London,(2) 1999 to 2003 3
		
			 Year Number of deaths 
		
		
			 1999 844 
			 2000 827 
			 2001 788 
			 2002 817 
			 2003 847 
		
	
	(1) For the years 1999–2000 the cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9). The codes used by ONS to define alcohol-related deaths are listed below:
	291—Alcoholic psychoses
	303—Alcohol dependence syndrome
	305.0—Non-dependent abuse of alcohol
	425.5—Alcoholic cardiomyopathy
	571—Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
	E860—Accidental poisoning by alcohol
	For the years 2001–2003 the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) was used. To maintain comparability with earlier years the following codes were used:
	F10—Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol
	I42.6—Alcoholic cardiomyopathy
	K70—Alcoholic liver disease
	K73—Chronic hepatitis, not elsewhere classified
	K74—Fibrosis and cirrhosis of liver
	X45—Accidental poisoning by and exposure to alcohol
	The selection of codes to define alcohol-related deaths is described in:
	Baker A and Rooney C (2003). Recent trends in alcohol-related mortality, and the impact of ICD-10 on the monitoring of these deaths in England and Wales. Health Statistics Quarterly 17, pp 5–14.
	(2) Usual residents of the London Government Office Region.
	(3) Deaths occurring in each calendar year.

Older Workers

Vera Baird: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer 
	(1)  what plans he has to publish indicators of employment of workers aged 50 to 69 years;
	(2)  what plans he has to publish indicators of employment levels of all adults, including those over state pension age;
	(3)  what plans he has to publish indicators of employment levels of workers of all ages over 50 years;
	(4)  what plans he has to revise the term working age adult when describing adults aged below the state pension age.

Stephen Timms: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
	Letter from Len Cook to Ms Vera Baird, dated 9 December 2004
	As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Questions about the publication of employment statistics by age. (203571, 203572, 203573 and 203574)
	The Labour Market Statistics national and regional First Releases, published monthly by the Office for National Statistics, contain analyses of employment by age, based upon the Labour Force Survey. These include estimates for people of working age, currently 16 to 64 for men and 16 to 59 for women; those over retirement age, and those aged 50 to retirement age.
	Estimates of employment for other age groups, for example 50 to 69, are available from publicly available data records, which can be used to produce tables such as that attached.
	At present there are no plans to change the terminology used to describe employment statistics for persons below State Pension age.
	
		Employment in the United Kingdom: three months endingAugust 2004 Not seasonally adjusted
		
			 Age group Thousand 
		
		
			 All aged 16 and over 28,159 
			 All of working age(4) 27,164 
			 50 and over 7,285 
			 50 to 69 7,097 
		
	
	(4) Men aged 16 to 64 and women aged 16 to 59.
	Source:
	ONS Labour Force Survey

Special Advisers and Travel Costs

Andrew Tyrie: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer on how many occasions between 31 March 2003 and 31 March 2004 departmental special advisers travelled (a) domestically and (b) abroad in an official capacity; what places were visited; and how much each visit cost.

Peter Luff: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the total travel costs to his Department have been for (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) officials for each year since 1997.

Stephen Timms: In respect of total travel costs and Ministers' travel costs, I refer to the answers given by the former Financial Secretary (Ruth Kelly) on 19 July 2004, Official Report, column 43–4W and 22 July 2004, Official Report, column 482–83W.
	Between 31 March 2003 and 31 March 2004 the Chancellor of the Exchequer's and Chief Secretary's special advisers travelled abroad on official business on 12 occasions at an average cost of £3,793 per trip. The places visited were: USA on 11–14 April 2003, 20–24 July 2003; 15–18 September 2003 (X2), 28–30 August 2003; 4–6 February 2004; Paris on 16–18 May 2003; Dubai on 19–22 September 2003; South Africa on 4–7 October 2003; Mexico on 25–28 October 2003; Beijing on 21–24 February 2004; Germany on 3–4 March 2004.
	Equivalent information about special advisers' domestic travel for this period, or about special advisers' total travel costs in the years prior to 2003–04, could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
	All travel is undertaken in accordance with the rules set out in the "Ministerial Code", the "Civil Service Management Code" and the "Code of Conduct for Special Advisers".

Carer's Allowance

Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what percentage of those qualifying for the state pension have been refused carers allowance, broken down by reason for refusal, in each of the last three years.

Maria Eagle: The question cannot be answered directly because the reason why people are refused carer's allowance is not broken down by age. Such information that is available is in the following table.
	
		Carer's Allowance: Claims made by people of state pension age in each year 2001–02 to 2003–04
		
			  Number of claims allowed and being paid CA 1 Number of claims allowed, but not paid as the claimant receives a state pension Number of claims allowed as a percentage of the number of people receiving state pension(6) Number of claims allowed, but not paid as the claimant receives a state pension as a percentage of the number of people receiving state pension(6) 
		
		
			 2001–02(7) 18,735 27,070 0.17 0.24 
			 2002–03(8) 20,770 78,745 0.18 0.70 
			 2003–04(9) 23,485 179,585 0.21 1.58 
		
	
	(5) CA is paid to people of State Pension age where there is no entitlement to State Pension or where State Pension is paid at a lower rate than CA. If a low State Pension is paid, a reduced rate of CA will be paid as a top-up.
	(6) Figures for State Pension as at 31 March in 2002, 2003, 2004.
	(7) Figures are as at 30 June 2002.
	(8) Figures are as at 31 May 2003.
	(9) Figures are as at 3 May 2004.
	Notes:
	1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 5.
	2. From October 2002, the upper age limit was increased to allow over 65's to claim.
	Source:
	IAD Information Centre, 100 per cent. sample.

Departmental Expenditure

John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate she has made of the cost of (a) new builds, (b) demolition rebuilds and (c) private finance initiative projects in her Department in each of the last two years.

Alun Michael: Defra estimates its expenditure over the last two years on the following activities to have been:
	
		
			   £ 
			  2002–03 2003–04 
		
		
			 (a) New builds 14,709,000 30,878,000 
			 (b) Demolition rebuilds 51,000 605,000 
			 (c) Private finance initiative projects Nil 1,029,000

Departmental Expenditure

John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what her estimate is of the cost of building refurbishment carried out by her Department in each of the last two years.

Alun Michael: Refurbishment work carried out on the Defra estate in the last 2 years was estimated to cost:
	
		
			  £ 
			  
		
		
			 2002–03 3,804,000 
			 2003–04 9,783,000

Waste Products

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will estimate what volume and proportion of food from (a) supermarkets, (b) households, (c) restaurants and other eating establishments and (d) other sources became waste products in the last period for which figures are available.

Elliot Morley: The data is not available in the form requested. The Environment Agency's National Waste Production Survey (NWPS) of 20,000 businesses, conducted in 1998/99, produced the following estimates.
	
		
			 Sector Quantity of waste in tonnes As percentage of food waste produced by theCommercial and Industrial sectors As percentage of total waste produced by the C and Il sectors 
		
		
			 Retail 253,000 9.77 0.29 
			 Hotels and Restaurants 10,000 0.38 0.01 
			 Food, Drinks and Tobacco 1,939,000 74.89 2.24 
			 Total 2,202,000 85.04 2.54 
		
	
	However these figures only relate to that fraction of the waste that is definitely food. A considerable amount of food waste was also contained within the general and biodegradable category. The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) estimate that the amount of food waste produced by the hotel and restaurant sector, for example, could be as high as three million tonnes per year.
	The most recent estimates for UK municipal waste arisings and compositional statistics were collected for the Strategy Unit Report in 2002.
	From this data it is estimated that about 5.7 million tonnes of UK Municipal Solid Waste is food waste, or approximately 15 per cent. of total arisings.
	Government is currently consulting on a waste data strategy, designed to improve the quality of waste data in the interests of all potential users.

Fuel Prices

Mike Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment she has made of the impact on UK manufacturing competitiveness of increased fuel prices.

Jacqui Smith: The Department is monitoring closely developments in the UK gas market and the recent increase in the wholesale price of gas. Ofgem has now announced its conclusions on its investigation into gas price increases in 2003 and 2004. It has concluded that the main causes of rising UK gas prices are high oil prices feeding into gas prices and declining UK gas supplies. Ofgem is taking two courses of action. It is asking the European Commission to put more resources into making gas competition work, and is continuing to examine why some UK gas supplies did not reach the market.
	While the cost of gas to industry has been rising recently, this should be seen in the context of historical trends. In real terms gas prices for industrial users in 2003 were nearly 30 per cent. below their level in 1990 and well below their average over the last 30 years.
	Electricity prices have increased mainly as a result of the rise in gas prices and the recovery in wholesale prices from unsustainably low levels in 2002. Industrial electricity prices in 2003 were nearly 50 per cent. below their 1990 levels. Even after the latest increases we expect prices to remain competitive with those of our major EU competitors.
	The Department has recently published a report by Oxford Economic Research Associates which concluded that the UK has the most competitive energy markets in Europe. The report is available at: www.dti.gov.uk/energy/gas and electricity/competitiveness structure/psa final. pdf

Parliamentary Questions

Nigel Evans: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, to how many written questions tabled in the last parliamentary session his Department had been unable to provide a substantive answer before the end of the session

Phil Hope: pursuant to my reply, 29 November 2004, Official Report, c. 41W
	It was not possible to provide a substantive answer to four questions prior to the prorogation of Parliament. Those questions were answered on 21 July 2004, Official Report, column 35WS, in accordance with the arrangements announced by the Leader of the House in a written ministerial statement.

Expenditure (Leeds)

Paul Truswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the allocations of (a) revenue and (b) capital to Leeds primary care trusts and each of their predecessor healthcare commissioning bodies have been since 1991–92.

Melanie Johnson: The information requested is shown in the tables.
	
		Revenue allocations to Leeds health authority and Leeds primary care trusts 1996–97 to 2005–06 £000
		
			  1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 
		
		
			 Leeds Health Authority 310,435 322,368 339,927 469,356 516,653 
			 East Leeds PCT n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Leeds North East PCT n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Leeds North West PCT n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Leeds West PCT n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 South Leeds PCT n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 
		
	
	
		
			  £000 
			  2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 
		
		
			 Leeds Health Authority 559,240 623,153 n/a n/a n/a 
			 East Leeds PCT n/a n/a 151,983 165,586 179,743 
			 Leeds North East PCT n/a n/a 135,571 147,704 160,333 
			 Leeds North West PCT n/a n/a 145,162 158,271 172,126 
			 Leeds West PCT n/a n/a 104,159 113,481 123,183 
			 South Leeds PCT n/a n/a 137,550 150,173 163,518 
		
	
	1999–2000 was the first year of unified allocations covering Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS), prescribing and General Medical Service cash limited. These figures are not comparable with those for previous which cover HCHS only.
	
		Operational capital allocations to Leeds primary care trusts 2003–04 to 2005–06 £000
		
			  2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 
		
		
			 East Leeds PCT 95 102 109 
			 Leeds North East PCT 95 102 109 
			 Leeds North West PCT 88 94 100 
			 Leeds West PCT 74 79 85 
			 South Leeds PCT 154 165 176

GP Lists (Wandsworth)

Tom Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average size is of general practitioners' lists in the London borough of Wandsworth.

Stephen Ladyman: The information requested is shown in the table.
	
		Average list size of Unrestricted Principals and Equivalents (UPEs)1 for Wandsworth Primary Care Trust (PCT), as at 30 September 2003 Number (headcount)
		
			  Wandsworth PCT 
		
		
			 UPEs 174 
			 Patients of UPEs 309,365 
			 Average list size of UPEs 1,778 
		
	
	(22) UPEs include General Medical Service unrestricted principals, Personal Medical Services (PMS) contracted General Practitioners (GPs) and salaried GPs.
	Patient data has been revised from previously published figures
	Source:
	Department of Health general and personal medical services statistics.

Chemistry Department (Exeter University)

Robert Key: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment he has made of the impact on science research of the closure of the chemistry department at Exeter university; and if he will make a statement.

Kim Howells: It is too early to early to make a detailed assessment of the impact on science research as a result of the proposed closure of Exeter's chemistry department. However, the quality of chemistry research in English universities has increased significantly. 50 per cent. of departments were rated five or five* in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) compared with only 20 per cent. in 1996. 27 per cent. were rated four as compared with 23 per cent. in 1996. Overall the UK currently ranks fourth in the world for the number and share of world citations in physical sciences.
	I have asked HEFCE to advise me on higher education subjects or courses of national strategic importance, including science subjects, where intervention might be appropriate to strengthen or secure them. HEFCE will be entering into a strategic dialogue with universities, colleges, employers and other partners to consider this matter.

Departmental Costs

John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the total external spending by his Department was on private finance initiative (PFI) consultants in each of the last two years; how many full-time equivalent consultants were employed over this period; how many billed consultancy days there were per year; what the implied average cost of each PFI consultant was; how many consultancy firms were used by his Department over this period; and if he will make a statement.

David Miliband: The total external spend by the Department on consultants in support of public private partnerships (PPPs) and private finance initiatives (PFI) in the last two years is shown in the following table:
	
		
			   £000 
			  2002–03 2003–04 
		
		
			 PPPs 110 130 
			 PFI 370 214 
			 Total spend on consultants 480 344 
		
	
	During the period 2002–03 and 2003–04, the Department used eight consultancy firms and a number of individual consultants in support of PPP and PFI projects.
	The information requested regarding the number of full-time equivalent consultants employed over the period, the number of billed consultancy days per year and the implied average cost of each PFI consultant is not available and could be supplied only at disproportionate cost.

Education Bodies

David Cameron: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the total cost is to his Department to date of (a) the Specialist Schools Trust, (b) the National College for School Leadership and (c) the Teacher Training Agency; what the costs of equivalent services were in 1997; and how many staff are employed by each body.

David Miliband: The following table shows the total grant allocated to the Specialist Schools Trust, the National College for School Leadership and the Teacher Training Agency to date for 2004–05; the equivalent funding for 1997–98; and the total number of staff employed by each body in 2004–05.
	The Specialist Schools Trust's services, including those funded by the Government, have developed to reflect the significant expansion in specialist schools, 257 schools in 1997 to 1,956 schools in 2004, and the extra opportunities presented by a mainly specialist system.
	In March 2004, the TTA's remit was expanded to include:
	the wider school work force, moving further towards securing comprehensive training and development for all school support staff;
	being a key partner in the new strategic network representing all staff working with children and young people that is being established in response to "Every Child Matters", and
	strengthening its contribution to teachers' Continuing Professional Development.
	
		DfES grant (cash terms) £000
		
			  1997–98 2004–05 Current FTE staff 
		
		
			 Specialist Schools Trust 678 12,452 70 
			 National College for School  Leadership — 116,675 246 
			 Teacher Training Agency 211,303 564,151 256 
		
	
	Notes:
	1. Figures are rounded to the nearest thousand.
	2. NCSL was established in 2000 and there was no equivalent agency in 1997.
	3. TTA 2004–05 grant in aid figures are based on allocations made for the year between 1 April and 29 November 2004.
	4. TTA current FTE staff figure includes employment of 20 temporary agency staff.

Head Teachers

Phil Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will list head teachers by (a) race and (b) gender in (i) England, (ii) each region and (iii) each local education authority.

David Miliband: Information on the ethnic origin of head teachers is not collected centrally.
	The following table gives the number of full-time regular head teachers by gender for maintained sector schools in England listed by region and local education authority at March 2003, (the latest information available by gender).
	The information is taken from the Database of Teachers' Records a database maintained primarily for pensions purposes. LEAs are shown as not available where data are insufficiently complete to be reliable. National and regional totals show data for all LEAs.
	
		Numbers of full time regular head teachers in service in maintained sector schools, March 2003 (Provisional)
		
			  Male Female Total 
		
		
			 Darlington 20 30 50 
			 Hartlepool 20 20 40 
			 Middlesbrough n/a n/a n/a 
			 Redcar and Cleveland 30 40 70 
			 Stockton on Tees 50 40 90 
			 Durham 150 170 320 
			 Northumberland 80 130 220 
			 Gateshead 30 50 80 
			 Newcastle upon Tyne n/a n/a n/a 
			 North Tyneside 40 40 80 
			 South Tyneside 30 30 60 
			 Sunderland 10 10 10 
			 North East 460 550 1,020 
			 Blackburn with Darwen 20 50 70 
			 Blackpool 20 20 40 
			 Halton n/a n/a n/a 
			 Warrington 60 40 100 
			 Cheshire 160 170 330 
			 Cumbria 150 180 330 
			 Bolton 60 70 130 
			 Bury 50 30 80 
			 Manchester 80 90 170 
			 Oldham 50 70 120 
			 Rochdale 50 60 110 
			 Salford n/a n/a n/a 
			 Stockport 50 90 140 
			 Tameside 50 60 110 
			 Trafford 40 50 90 
			 Wigan 50 70 120 
			 Lancashire 320 340 660 
			 Knowsley n/a n/a n/a 
			 Liverpool n/a n/a n/a 
			 St Helens 40 40 80 
			 Sefton 70 60 130 
			 Wirral 60 80 140 
			 North West 1,500 1,730 3,220 
			 East Riding of Yorkshire 80 80 160 
			 City of Kingston Upon Hull 50 60 110 
			 North East Lincolnshire 30 50 80 
			 North Lincolnshire 40 50 90 
			 York 40 30 70 
			 North Yorkshire 170 220 390 
			 Barnsley n/a n/a n/a 
			 Doncaster 70 70 140 
			 Rotherham 50 80 140 
			 Sheffield 90 110 200 
			 Bradford 80 120 200 
			 Calderdale 40 50 100 
			 Kirklees 80 110 180 
			 Leeds 120 170 290 
			 Wakefield 70 90 160 
			 Yorkshire and the Number 1,000 1,290 2,290 
			 Derby 20 20 40 
			 Leicester 30 30 70 
			 Nottingham 80 90 170 
			 Rutland (24)—; 10 10 
			 Derbyshire 190 250 440 
			 Leicestershire 150 150 290 
			 Lincolnshire 170 160 330 
			 Northamptonshire 150 200 350 
			 Nottinghamshire 220 170 390 
			 East Midlands 1,000 1,090 2,090 
			 Herefordshire 60 50 100 
			 Stoke on Trent 50 60 110 
			 Telford and Wrekin 30 50 80 
			 Shropshire 90 80 170 
			 Staffordshire 220 210 420 
			 Warwickshire 100 160 260 
			 Birmingham 190 290 480 
			 Coventry 70 60 130 
			 Dudley 60 50 110 
			 Sandwell 70 60 130 
			 Solihull 100 90 190 
			 Walsall 60 70 130 
			 Wolverhampton 60 60 120 
			 Worcestershire 120 160 280 
			 West Midlands 1,260 1,450 2,710 
			 Luton 20 60 80 
			 Peterborough 30 40 70 
			 Southend on Sea 20 40 60 
			 Thurrock n/a n/a n/a 
			 Bedfordshire n/a n/a n/a 
			 Cambridgeshire 90 170 260 
			 Essex 220 360 570 
			 Hertfordshire 170 310 480 
			 Norfolk 200 260 460 
			 Suffolk 150 190 340 
			 East of England 950 1,560 2,510 
			 Camden 10 50 60 
			 City of London (24)— (24)— (24)— 
			 Hackney n/a n/a n/a 
			 Hammersmith and Fulham 20 40 50 
			 Haringey 20 60 00 
			 Islington 20 30 50 
			 Kensington and Chelsea (25)— 20 30 
			 Lambeth 20 30 50 
			 Lewisham 20 50 70 
			 Newham 30 70 90 
			 Southwark 10 10 20 
			 Tower Hamlets n/a n/a n/a 
			 Wandsworth 30 50 80 
			 City of Westminster n/a n/a n/a 
			 Barking and Dagenham 20 40 60 
			 Barnet 40 70 110 
			 Bexley 30 50 80 
			 Brent 20 50 70 
			 Bromley n/a n/a n/a 
			 Croydon 50 90 140 
			 Ealing 30 60 80 
			 Enfield 30 60 90 
			 Greenwich n/a n/a n/a 
			 Harrow 20 50 70 
			 Havering 40 50 80 
			 Hillingdon 50 40 90 
			 Hounslow 20 60 80 
			 Kingston upon Thames n/a n/a n/a 
			 Merton n/a n/a n/a 
			 Redbridge 30 50 80 
			 Richmond upon Thames n/a n/a n/a 
			 Sutton n/a n/a n/a 
			 Waltham Forest 20 70 90 
			 London 700 1,290 2,000 
			 Bracknell Forest 10 30 40 
			 Brighton and Hove 30 50 80 
			 Isle of Wight 20 40 70 
			 Medway 40 60 100 
			 Milton Keynes 50 60 110 
			 Portsmouth 20 50 70 
			 Reading 20 40 60 
			 Slough 20 30 50 
			 Southampton 30 50 80 
			 West Berkshire 20 60 80 
			 Windsor and Maidenhead 20 50 60 
			 Wokingham 20 50 70 
			 Buckinghamshire 100 140 240 
			 East Sussex 80 100 180 
			 Hampshire 180 310 490 
			 Kent 260 310 570 
			 Oxfordshire 120 180 310 
			 Surrey 130 290 420 
			 West Sussex 120 190 310 
			 South East 1,280 2,090 3,370 
			 Bath and North East Somerset 30 60 90 
			 Bournemouth 10 (24)— 10 
			 City of Bristol 70 100 170 
			 North Somerset 40 30 80 
			 Plymouth 60 50 110 
			 Poole 20 30 50 
			 South Gloucestershire 60 60 120 
			 Swindon 10 20 40 
			 Torbay 30 20 40 
			 Cornwall 150 150 300 
			 Isles of Scilly (24)— (24)— (24)— 
			 Devon 180 200 380 
			 Dorset 80 100 180 
			 Gloucestershire 130 170 300 
			 Somerset 150 140 280 
			 Wiltshire 90 160 250 
			 South West 1,100 1,270 2,370 
			 England 9,260 12,320 21,580 
		
	
	n/a Not available
	(24) Nil or less than 5

Veterinary Medicine

Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much public funding has been granted to UK (a) veterinary colleges and (b) training places in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.

Kim Howells: holding answer 30 November 2004
	The actual amounts of recurrent funding paid by the HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) to the Royal Veterinary College from 1998–99 to 2004–05 are set out in the following table.
	
		
			  £ 
			 Academic year Total grant 
		
		
			 1998/99 7,902,287 
			 1999/2000 9,528,988 
			 2000/01 9,792,798 
			 2001/02 10,936,725 
			 2002/03 12,100,000 
			 2003/04 14,400,000 
			 2004/05 16,000,000 
		
	
	There are in addition three other higher education institutions in England offering courses in veterinary science. Bristol, Cambridge and Liverpool. Table B following shows the notional amounts of grant paid in total to these institutions.
	
		
			  £ 
			 Academic year Total notional grant 
		
		
			 1998/99 11,100,000 
			 1999/2000 12,800,000 
			 2000/01 14,300,000 
			 2001/02 15,300,000 
			 2002/03 15,000,000 
			 2003/04 17,000,000 
		
	
	I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 7 December 2004, Official Report, column 439W, for details of the estimated numbers of students on veterinary sciences courses.